Is it just me, or do these books appear REALLY tiny? Image courtesy of clarita, Morguefile.

Nine days ago, Austrian skydiver and BASE jumper Felix Baumgartner set a record for one of the highest jumps ever recorded. “Fearless Felix” jumped from a height of about 128,100 feet, which is about 128,096 feet higher than I’d ever like to go. (Wow. I wonder what that felt like as he was plummeting downward?)

This jump is definitely Guinness-Book-Of-Records-2013-worthy. It got me to thinking: Are there any similar records that have been created in regard to the literary world? So for your entertainment today, I assembled some fun facts related to books and writing. Enjoy!

Smallest reproduction of a printed book:Teeny Ted From Turnip Town by Canadian author Malcolm Douglas Chaplin. It measures 70 x 100 micrometers. (You need WAY more than reading glasses for this one.)

Largest book: The 1,460-page stone book at Mandalay Hill, Mandalay, Myanmar. Each page is a stone tablet measuring about 5 feet tall, 3 1/2 feet wide and 5 inches thick. The book was commissioned by King Mindon in 1860 and took until 1868 to complete.

Longest book:In The Realms Of The Unreal by American author Henry Joseph Darger, Jr. It has 15,145 pages. (And I thought I had trouble getting through Vanity Fair?)

Most expensive book sold at auction: the Codex Leicester by Leonardo da Vinci. It sold for $30.8 million to Bill Gates of Microsoft.